Rocky Mountain E-Review
of Language and Literature
Volume 61, Number 2
FALL 2007
CONTENTS
Articles | Forum | Reviews
Articles
Freud's Contribution to Arthur Schnitzler's Prose Style
Lorenzo Bellettini
Cambridge University
This article aims to offer a new understanding of the relationship between Arthur
Schnitzler and Sigmund Freud by focusing on the development of Schnitzler's prose
style against the background of his critical reading of Freud's writings.
Henry James, Impressionism, and Publicity
Daniel Hannah
Lakehead University
Henry James' shifting appreciation of impressionist painting can be attributed
to his vexed awareness of intimate ties between his own literary impressionism
and late nineteenth-century forms of publicity. While James was initially
critical of painterly impressionism for its complicity with a culture of
promotion, later he looked to the impressionist artist as an analogical
figure for the place of his own writing in a world where the borders between
private and public appeared increasingly permeable. Falling between the two
tales "A New England Winter" and "Flickerbridge," The Reverberator
represents James' most extensive (and neglected) treatment of this theme.
Octave Mirbeau et le problème de
l'écriture masquée
Pierre Michel
Université d'Angers
L'auteur rattache le recours à l'écriture masquée et la condition
des ghostwriters aux conditions socio-économiques de la fin du XIXe siècle
(abondance de l'offre et de la demande) et en dégage l'intérêt
littéraire pour le ghostwriter : il peut s'entra”ner, procéder sans
risque à des innovations, et préparer avantageusement la suite de sa
carrière. Puis Pierre Michel souligne l'originalité d'Octave Mirbeau
en la matière : il en éprouve un mélange de honte et de fierté;
il se sert déjà de l'écriture sous pseudonyme comme d'une
thérapie; ses commanditaires avancent eux-mêmes à visage
découvert et lui laissent visiblement toute latitude; et surtout, loin de
n'être que de plates commandes alimentaires, les romans rédigés
pour le compte d'autrui sont littérairement remarquables et donnent lieu à
un ébouriffant festival stylistique.
[The author analyzes why writers engage in ghostwriting in the context of the social
and economic conditions of the end of the 19th century (abundance of offers and demands)
and identifies the literary benefit for the ghostwriter: he can practice, try out
different styles and prepare a path for his/her future career. Then Pierre Michel
underlines the originality of Octave Mirbeau's career as a ghostwriter: he has, about
his work, mixed feelings of shame and pride; he uses this practice as therapy; his
employers eventually reveal themselves and apparently allow him unlimited freedom;
and above all, in writing on others' behalf, Mirbeau did not merely earn a living,
but created remarkable literary novels, featuring astounding stylistic displays.]
Davis Award Winners
To encourage the engagement of graduate students in scholarly production, the Rocky
Mountain Review is recognizing excellence among our graduate student membership by
publishing two papers, first presented at the 2006 RMMLA conference in Tucson, that
won the 2006 Davis Award. Both papers are presented in their original versions: not
subjected to peer-review but simply edited for publication. We hope that this new
feature of our fall issue will inspire graduate students in the humanities to pursue
their scholarly efforts and to submit their work at our annual conference.
Charles Sheldon's In His Steps in the
Context of Regionalist Fiction
Wendy Miller Roberts
Northwestern University
Remembering Migration and Removal in American
Indian Women's Poetry
Amy T. Hamilton
University of Arizona
Forum
The Pros and Cons of Teaching
German Literature in Translation
Maria Mikolchak
St. Cloud State University
The article addresses the issue of how teaching literature in translation (in particular
German literature) can be beneficial for undergraduate students. While teaching in the
original language is considered by many teachers the best solution, often it limits the
study of literature to exploring only short works or/and the works that are written in
simple/simplistic language. Thus, important works are often excluded from the curriculum
because of the language barrier. Based on the scholarly research in the field and using
the data collected while teaching a German Literature in Translation course at SCSU, this
project argues a case for making German literature accessible to a broader audience,
including students of German, students without knowledge of German but with a general
interest in literature, and, through an on-line course, to off-campus public.
Reviews
A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval
Landscapes, ed. Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing
Reviewer: Cliff Toliver
The Premodern Condition: Medievalism
and the Making of Theory, by Bruce Holsinger
Reviewer: Cindy Carlson
Shakespeare, Reception and Translation: Germany
and Japan, by Friederike von Schwerin-High
Reviewer: John D. Swain
Seventeenth-Century Mother's Advice Books,
by Marsha Urban
Reviewer: Doreen Alvarez Saar
Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition,
ed. Lisa Vollendorf
Reviewer: Ana Isabel Carballal
Romanticism: Comparative Discourses,
ed. Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler
Reviewer: Troy Urquhart
Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne:
A Life in Letters, by Cecile Anne De Rocher
Reviewer: Jill Larsen
Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Stories,
by Jean M. Humez
Reviewer: Arianne Burford
Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian
Fiction, by Lisa Surridge
Reviewer: Sarah Amyes Hanselman
The Absent-Minded Imperialists:
Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain, by Bernard Porter
Reviewer: Precious McKenzie-Stearns
Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art,
1850-1920, by Ruth L. Bohan
Reviewer: Paul Milton
Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature
and Natural History of the California Crest, by Corey Lee Lewis
Reviewer: Nathan Crook
D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico:
"The Time is Different There," by Arthur J. Bachrach
Reviewer: Ann McCauley Basso
Literary Globalism:
Anglo-American Fiction Set in France, by Carolyn A. Durham
Reviewer: Helynne H. Hansen
The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural
Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940, ed. Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis
Reviewer: Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi
Hart Crane: After His Lights, by Brian M. Reed
Reviewer: Craig Monk
Berlin Alexanderplatz. Radio, Film, and the
Death of Weimar Culture, by Peter Jelavich
Reviewer: Cornelius Partsch
Kamikaze: A Japanese Pilot's Own Spectacular Story
of the Infamous Suicide Squadrons, by Yasuo Kuwahara and Gordon T. Allred
Reviewer: Robert M. Hogge
Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Politics
of Modernity, by Karen Ford
Reviewer: Anthony Flinn
Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social
Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather, by Paul R. Petrie
Reviewer: Billy Merck
If This Be Treason. Translation and Its
Dyscontents: A Memoir, by Gregory Rabassa
Reviewer: Daniel C. Villanueva
Staging Whiteness, by Mary F. Brewer
Reviewer: Elisabeth Lofaro
Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise,
ed. Tim Engles and John N. Duvall
Reviewer: H. Louise Davis
Derrida's Gift. Differences:
A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 16.3
Reviewer: Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield
Latinas in the United States: A Historical
Encyclopedia, ed. Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol
Reviewer: Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender
in the American West, by Kristin M. McAndrews
Reviewer: Christine Grogan
¿Qué onda? Urban Youth Culture
and Border Identity, by Cynthia L. Bejarano
Reviewer: Ángeles G. Aller
Weird English, by Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien
Reviewer: Stephanie Taitano
Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom:
Pedagogical Strategies, ed. Charles J. Stivale
Reviewer: Maryann Weber
Blended Learning and Online Tutoring: A Good
Practice Guide, by Janet Macdonald
Reviewer: Hannah Lavery
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